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On the Chicago Teacher's Strike

For the Old Mole Variety Hour 17 Sept 2012 Joanne Barkan in Dissent Magazine notes that, Yes, schoolchildren in Chicago are victims, but not of their teachers. They are victims of a nationwide education “reform” movement geared to undermine teachers’ unions and shift publi... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 09/10/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  Tom Becker hosts this show about the search for a vanished but popular musician, living shamelessly on public assistance, the demise of the European welfare state, and remembering a radical historian and activist.  To hear the whole show, use the play button below.  To hea... Read more

Eulogy for Alexander Saxton

Airs at: Mon, 09/10/2012 at 12:00am
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 The death of historian and novelist Alexander Saxton led Old Mole Tom Becker to reflections on Saxton's long life as a radical activist and historian of race and labor.  Saxton is the author of The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California a... Read more

Out Loud on 08/14/12

Airs at: Tue, 09/11/2012 at 12:00am
Interview with local business owner of Funhouse lounge Trenton Shine. http://funhouselounge.com/ Interview with Marsha and Brianna of the Ingersoll Gender Center http://www.ingersollcenter.org/ Musical guest Logan Lynn featured music from his discography. http://www.loganlynnm... Read more

Outloud -Funhouse Lounge, Ingersoll Gender Center, New Avenues

Airs at: Tue, 08/14/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Out Loud
Interview with local business owner of Funhouse lounge Trenton Shine. http://funhouselounge.com/ Interview with Marsha and Brianna of the Ingersoll Gender Center http://www.ingersollcenter.org/ Musical guest Logan Lynn featured music from his discography. http://www.loganlynnm... Read more

Sam Gindin on Building Working-Class Power Part 2

Airs at: Tue, 09/04/2012 at 12:00am
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  Bill Resnick talk with Sam Gidin in this second of a two-part interview. They consider why working class resistance during the current crisis has been insufficient to prevail over the maneuvers of the ruling apparatuses, and what’s the long term strategy/vision to build p... Read more

Paid Sick Days Now: an illness to one is contagious for all

Airs at: Mon, 09/03/2012 at 12:00am
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Joe Clement talks with Emmit Nolan and Marie, members of the Portland IWW, about their Paid Sick Days Now! campaign. In addition to the October 6th rally at Holiday Park, they discuss the problem of workers coming into work sick because they have no other choice, the failur... Read more

Sam Gidin on Building Working-Class Power

Airs at: Mon, 09/03/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talk with Sam Gidin in this first of a two-part interview. They consider why working class resistance during the current crisis has been insufficient to prevail over the maneuvers of the ruling apparatuses, and what’s the long term strategy/vision to build powe... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 27 August 2012

Airs at: Mon, 08/27/2012 at 12:00am
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Iven Hale hosts and we hear about German socialist history, the novel Sense of an Ending, Political Aspects of Full Employment, and The Living Death of Solitary Confinement: Bill Resnick continues his Interview with Historian Bill Smaldone about the German Social Democratic... Read more

Politics of Full Employment

Airs at: Mon, 08/27/2012 at 12:00am
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Clayton Morgareidge reads an essay by Michal Kalecki from Monthly Review, "Political Aspects of Full Employment," explaining why capitalists object to government support of full employment: without painful consequences to job loss, employers lose a powerful tool for coerci... Read more